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- From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Help needed: COHERENT 4.0 won't boot
- Message-ID: <930102608@drktowr.chi.il.us>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 19:04:25 GMT
- References: <kvr.725917148@mcshh.hanse.de>
- Organization: DarkTower Software
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- Kerst V. Raden (kvr@mcshh.Hanse.DE) wrote:
- : Motherboard with AMD 386DX/DXL, 40 MHz, 4MB RAM, Symphony chipset,
- : AMI BIOS
-
- Ok....I have the same exact board and BIOS I believe. Here is what
- my setup looks like: (I'm posting it for general reference as to
- a working AMI setup).
-
- Under advanced setup: (I'll just include the strange stuff)
- typematic rate programming: disabled
- typematic rate delay (msec): 500
- typematic rat (Chars/sec): 15
- .
- .
- Hard Disk Type 47 RAM Area: 0:300
- .
- .
- Numeric Processor Test: Disabled (I don't have one)
- Weitek Processor: Absent
- Floppy Drive Seek at Boot: Enabled
- System Boot Up Sequence: A:, C:
- Cache Memory: Enabled
- Turbo Switch Function: Enablde
- .
- .
- Video ROM Shadow C000,16K: Enabled
- Video ROM Shadow C400,16K: Enabled
- .
- .
- (rest are Adaptor ROM Shadow and they are disabled)
- .
- .
- System ROM Shadow F000,64K: Enabled
-
- Under Advanced Chipset:
-
- Hidden Refresh: Disabled
- Slow Refresh: Disabled
- Single ALE Enable: No
- Keyboard Reset Control: Disabled
- Master Mode Byte Swap : Disabled
- AT Cycle Wait State: Enabled
- DRAM Read Wait State: 0 W/S
- DRAM Write Wait State: 0 W/S
- Cache Write W/S: 0, 32Kx8
- Non-Cacheable Bolck-1 Size: Disabled
- Non-Cacheable Block-1 Base: 0 KB
- Non-Cacheable Block-2 Size: Disabled
- Non-Cacheable Block-2 Base: 0 KB
- Cacheable RAM Address Range: 64MB
- Video BIOS Area Cacheable: Yes
-
- My BIOS is AMI (C) 1990, and the version number goes off the screen
- too fast for me to read :)
-
-
- : GENOA VGA with Tseng ET 4000 chipset and 1 MB RAM
-
- Sorry, I've got an OAK card.
-
- : IBM 8503 monochrome monitor
-
- Even thought it is monochrome, you should set the BIOS to color I believe
- since it's VGA and not MDA also the jumper on the motherboard should
- be switched to color.
-
- : Multi I/O board (com1, com2, lpt1, fd, hd) with Inboard W83757F chip
-
- I think this is the same exact board I have. Everything but the kitchen
- sink.
-
- : Seagate ST3144A hard disk
-
- The drive shouldn't matter as long as the BIOS is set up right, but
- you're having problems before it even fiddles with the drive.
-
- : 3,5" floppy
- : Cherry MF2 keyboard
-
- These shouldn't matter. The keyboard might, but later in the setup.
-
- I'm not sure my BIOS setup is optimal, but it works. I had Coherent on
- one machine, then moved it to another. Both were 386/40 AMD's, one with
- 2 megs the second with 8 megs ram. I used the same BIOS setup for both.
- I've run it with both an IDE using the Super I/O card, and also an
- MFM using a Western Digital controller card. Worked on both (right now
- it's on a 120meg IDE using the Super I/O as a controller).
-
- I hope that helps.
-
- -Louis
-
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